Re: [RFC] ext3 freeze feature

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Feb 08 2008 - 09:59:33 EST


On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:26:57AM -0500, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> You may as well make the common ioctl the same as the XFS version,
> both by number and parameters, so that applications which already
> understand the XFS ioctl will work on other filesystems.

Yes. In facy you should be able to lift the implementations of
XFS_IOC_FREEZE and XFS_IOC_THAW to generic code, there's nothing
XFS-specific in there.

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